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Cisco CCNA Certification: Why You NEED Hands-On Practice !
Posted on Jul.13, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments
CCNA and CCNP candidates hear it all the time: "you have to get some hands-on experience to pass the exams".
Candidates tend to think that’s just so they can solve the simulator problems, but that’s only the more obvious reason.
First, I want to make it clear that I’m not bashing learning from books you have to learn theory before you can really know what’s going on in the first place. The key is that to truly understand routing and switching processes, [...]
Cisco CCNA Certification: An Illustrated Guide To Ethernet CSMA/CD
Posted on Jun.20, 2009, under Computer and PC Tips No Comments
When you’re studying for your CCNA exams, you’re going to study the theory of technologies we basically take for granted in networking. CSMA/CD is one of those technologies. It works beautifully and you don’t even have to configure it. But to be an effective network troubleshooter (and to pass the 640-811, 640-801, and 640-821 exams), you have to know Ethernet inside and out, and that means knowing CSMA/CD.
The first Ethernet standards were 10Base5 and 10Base2. Network devices such as hubs, [...]
